42-97653

Delivered Denver 18/1/44; 1SAG Langley 13/2/44; Slated 381BG, Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 2/3/44; transferred 840BS/483BG Sterparone; t/o Gander for Italy via Prestwick, UK 7/6/44 with Mike Midinger, Co-pilot: Tom Hawkins, Navigator: Warren Laughery, Bombardier: Chas Vavier, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clarence Wallace, Radio Operator: Reg King, Ball turret gunner: Alan Pope, Waist gunner: Steve Thorndike, Waist gunner: Albt Fullerton,Tail gunner: George Gihnaniki (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed near RAF Predannack, Cornwall, UK. (? Missing in Action Nis, Yugo 15/7/44 with Bill Kilpatrick, Brooks, White, Harrell, Wilson, Norton, Brothers, Brooks, Burney, Bowers (10 evaded capture & return 26/8/44); flak, hit #1 & 2, crashed Nis; Missing Air Crew Report 6826.

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Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log